Karl,
[Karl] I'm installing and I am on page 13 of the "readme". I am confused by the 2 options. If I understand it properly if I use option 1, I must enter all my ports and pins data, motor tuning and etc, manually. Is this correct?
[DB]: correct. The desire to avoid having to enter ports& pins again is why many use option 2. Both options get you to the desired end result. unfortunately, there is not an easy way to automate this - it would require that I write a program to open a profile XML and go in and change settings in the XML. Since the XML contents are not supported or documented interfaces for mach, that would not be a good thing to do - so the user gets stuck doing some hand configuration on first install.
MSM mster profile + Ports & pins -> desired end result
and
user profile (already with ports & pins etc) + MSM options -> desired end result.
[Karl] Next a rand Mach again this time I configured the estop correctly and the scrolling message area said to "hit the "reset" button. There is no longer a "reset" button on this screen. The message needs to be change to the "Mach ready" button.
[DB]: sigh. That's my fault really. The "reset" message comes from inside mach - mach assumes the button is called "reset". For various reasons I used ready/not ready. I suppose that if enough people push on me I could change "ready" to "reset".
But I also had early feedback that "reset" was ambiguous language. For some things, when they running and you reset them, they stop. Other devices in the world act the opposite, you have to reset them to make then ready to run.
Dave